Horace Randal

Horace Randal (4 January 1833-2 May 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army who commanded the 2nd Brigade of John George Walker's Texas division during the American Civil War. Randal was killed at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry in 1864.

Biography
Horace Randal was born in McNairy County, Tennessee in 1833, and his family moved to Texas in 1838. Randal graduated from West Point in 1854, placing 45th out of 46 cadets in his class. He served in the US Army dragoons in the Southwest during the wars with the Apache Native Americans, and he turned down Winfield Scott's offer to commission him as a Major in the US Army; instead, Randal decided to side with the Confederate States of America when the American Civil War broke out in 1861. He served as an aide to Braxton Bragg and Gustavus Woodson Smith, and he raised his own Texas cavalry regiment on 12 February 1862 to fight in the Western Theater. As a reward for his capture of the Union supply train and 500 prisoners at Mansfield in April 1864, Edmund Kirby Smith promoted Randal to Brigadier-General, but Randal would be killed while leading a charge at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry later that month.